The Horse Whisperer
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  • Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Robert Redford
  • Summary: After her daughter is injured in a horseback riding accident, a sophisticated New York woman (Thomas) desperately seeks the help of a Montana horse whisperer (Redford) to help her daughter and the horse recover from the trauma.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Joshua Klein
    90
    With solid, stately acting, and landscapes that could convert atheists, The Horse Whisperer tugs heartstrings without seeming self-conscious.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    80
    Directing himself for the first time, Redford has lavished his usual meticulous care on popular material that comes alive on the screen in ways that it never could on the page.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    Curl your cynical lip if you want, but there's a place for heartwarming, life-affirming, even weepy dramas, and Robert Redford brings the best-selling novel about a traumatized teen and her wounded horse to the screen with dignity and restraint.
  4. Newsweek
    Reviewed by: Jeff Giles
    30
    It's punishingly dull for fully half of its two hours and 45 minutes.

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